Healthy Eating Equals Huge Savings
When most people think of the benefits of healthy eating, they think about the obvious ones. Healthy eating helps you lose weight. It can, in some cases, slow or reverse the effects of aging. Healthy eating can help you avoid sickness and, in some cases, can help detoxify your system. There are clearly a lot of benefits to maintaining a healthy diet, but one category of benefits that people often miss is this: healthy eating can help keep your bank account healthy too.
At first glance it doesn’t really seem like there’s any connection between healthy eating and a healthy bank balance, but the two are connected in more ways than you think. Although buying fresh produce and healthy foods may cost a bit more at the grocery, it will certainly help you save in other areas. Here are just a few ways that healthy eating can help you save money.
Healthy eating helps you maintain a healthy weight - Overweight people have far more instances of health problems than those who maintain a controlled weight. People who weight is within the recommended range for their height and age have less instances of bone and joint problems and less instances of hypertension and diabetes. Less health problems means less trips to the doctor.
Healthy eating helps you control health issues - If you do have health issues like hypertension, high cholesterol or diabetes, healthy eating can help you control or, in some cases, erase these problems. Using diet to manage these health issues means you won’t have to pay for pills or doctor visits.
Healthy eating can help you save on health insurance - Many health insurance companies now issue lower premiums to customers who maintain a healthy weight, eat right and exercise. Being able to take advantage of these lower premiums could save you hundreds of dollars a year.
Healthy eating is often cheaper than buying processed food - Produce and other healthy foods may, at first glance, seem more expensive, but they’re really not. A ten pound bag of potatoes will last a lot longer than a box of instant mashed potatoes. Fresh vegetables will be more flavorful than their frozen counterparts, and probably have less additives. Most cities and towns also have Farmer’s Markets, where fresh vegetables can be purchased directly from the growers, at prices that are cheaper than those in the stores.
Of course the biggest benefit of healthy eating is that it will help you be more healthy and have less medical issues. For those people who want to enjoy their money, and their lives, that may be the biggest benefit of all.
August 14th, 2008 at 8:05 am
We have a farmers market just down the street from us that we shop every weekend. We also have our own garden which saves us a lot during the summer months. Now if I could learn how to do canning.
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August 15th, 2008 at 8:38 am
another benefit is that you’ll stay full longer eating healthy foods, so you don’t have to buy as much.
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